2021–2025 (latest 5 aligned FYs; v3 window cap 5): revenue $2.1B to $1.8B, decreasing; diluted EPS 3.59 to -18.23, decreasing.
51
Median gross margin 30.4% over 10y, very stable.
0
Median ROIC 1.0%, above the 12% hurdle in 0% of years.
28
Net debt/EBITDA n/ax, interest coverage -13x.
47
Owner earnings changed trend unclear over up to the ten most recent annual observations.
Price vs. value if growth stopped today
A cautious baseline, not a price target: what the shares may support if normalized owner earnings simply hold steady.
Above value if growth stopped todayBelow value if growth stopped today
No price data
$306M
Unavailable — insufficient owner-earnings data
Unavailable — insufficient growth-model data
$66.40
No price data
This zero-growth estimate assumes trailing owner earnings persist — unreliable for declining businesses. ASH revenue fell in each of the three most recent year-over-year FY comparisons, so this estimate is flagged as unreliable for this company.
Model details under moat-index@3.0.0: zero-growth multiple 11.1×, capped-growth comparison at no more than 18×; 9% discount rate; high-end growth 0% (capped at 4%) using min(5y revenue CAGR, 5y diluted-EPS CAGR), clamped to 0%–4%; maintenance capex uses min(capex, D&A); abstain when D&A is unavailable. This is a disclosed model range, not intrinsic value as fact.
13 years of fundamentals
The business, in plain English
ASHLAND INC. booked $1.8B of revenue in FY2025 in the Industrials sector and kept 30.1% of it as gross profit — a moderate-margin business by that measure. After every other cost, −46.3% of each revenue dollar reached the bottom line.
Across the filed record, revenue shrank from $6.1B (FY2014) to $1.8B (FY2025) — about −10.4% a year compounded over 11 years.
It earned −36.2% on invested capital in the latest filed year, FY2025. Across the full 12-year measurable filed record, median ROIC was 1.5%. Over the v3 recent window (10 measurable filed years), median ROIC was 1.0%. The Returns on Capital filter above scores it 0/100.
ASH's latest filed year, FY2025, doesn't disclose total debt in a form the methodology can use, so current leverage is treated as unmeasured — never assumed to be zero.
Put together: Pricing Power is the strongest of the five filters (51/100) and Returns on Capital the weakest (0/100), which is how ASH lands at 30/100 — a None moat.
This breakdown is generated from the filed numbers and sub-scores above — no outside narrative, no estimates. Where a filing doesn’t disclose an input, the sentence that would need it is omitted instead of guessed.
FY2013–FY2025 · 13 fiscal years, normalized from ASH’s SEC filings
Sales, as filed$1.8B FY2025Revenue kept after cost of goods30.1% FY2025Standard ROIC or separately labeled Operating ROICROIC −36.2% FY2025Cash an owner could take out−$706M FY2025
Gaps in a line mean that item isn’t in ASH’s filings for that year. The series is never interpolated or estimated. The Table view lists every filed value, including operating and net margins, total debt, and share count.
Flagship explainer
How ASHLAND INC. makes its money
Start with a dollar of revenue and follow what the filing says remains.
Honest partial: the filing did not provide a normalized tag for Research and development, Selling, general and administrative; those components are omitted, not plugged.
Position size uses shares and filed value from each manager’s 13F. Portfolio weight uses the eligible long-share filing denominator. Changes compare only with the immediately preceding calendar quarter.
Insider activity is unavailable from the source; no zero-activity claim is shown.
Unavailable: Form 4 activity could not be retrieved for this rendering.
Moat Score history
16 logged readings since Jul 17, 2026 · append-only, never rewritten
Moat Score over timeLast scored reading of each day, on the 0–100 scale29.7 / 100
Breaks in the line mark methodology or normalizer upgrades — readings across versions aren’t compared, so a level shift there isn’t a change in the business.
Tier changesSame-methodology and same-normalizer crossings of the Wide / Narrow / Shallow bars
Scores are logged append-only and never overwritten — this record cannot be reconstructed retroactively, which is exactly why it’s worth keeping.
Insider activity
Form 4 reports mix P/S market or private transactions with compensation-plan mechanics. Activity casually described as “insider selling” can include compensation mechanics; awards, tax withholding, and option exercises are shown by their exact filed class here, never collapsed into “Bought” or “Sold.”
These are disclosed filing facts and arithmetic aggregates, not a signal or verdict.
The insider-filing service is temporarily unavailable, so no partial or guessed answer is shown for ASH.
Track record
How ASHLAND INC.’s moat rated in each of the years we can reconstruct from its filings — scored only on what was knowable at the time — and what its price and returns did afterward. The score never saw a price; the two are joined only in hindsight, for education, not as a signal.
Point-in-time scores 2016–2025, one methodology version · reconstructed from filings on file each Dec 31 — never with hindsight
Point-in-time Moat Score (dot colored by tier)Indexed price (total-return (dividends reinvested))Rated Wide-moat that year
How to read this: each dot is what the engine would have scored ASH on that December 31; the line below is its total-return price path (dividends reinvested) in the years since.
Two tracks, one timeline: the score has its own 0–100 scale (top), the price its own 100-based scale (bottom) — never a shared axis. The price path is a total-return (dividends reinvested) index built from the same data the forward returns use; gaps in the score line are years with no reconstructed rating (see the table for why). The Table view carries every value.
What followed, in the years it rated Wide
In the reconstructed history shown, ASH did not rate Wide-moat in any year, so there is no wide-moat track record to report. That absence is itself the honest answer — we don’t manufacture a comparison where the rating never earned one.
Industrials context
#337 of 428 scored Industrials companies, ranked by Moat Score.
Based on its FY2025 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores ASHLAND INC. (ASH) 29.7 out of 100 — below the Shallow-moat bar, so no moat. The five questions behind that score begin at 20% each; if exactly one genuinely lacks data, the other four weights are renormalized and disclosed. revenue and EPS trend 23, pricing power 51, returns on capital 0, balance-sheet safety 28, capital allocation 47.
How has ASH's Moat Score changed over time?
The record logs 16 readings since Jul 17, 2026; the latest reads 29.7 out of 100 (no moat). No tier changes on record yet. (Methodology or normalizer upgrades on Jul 20, 2026, Jul 23, 2026, Jul 26, 2026 re-based the score; readings across versions aren't compared.) The history is append-only — readings are only ever added, never rewritten.
Scored from primary SEC filings via the public methodology. Educational only — not a recommendation to buy or sell ASH. See the disclaimer.